Books like Songs of Love and War by Santa Montefiore

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A charismatic self‑made tycoon, Lyon Buchanan, thinks love is a foreign concept—until the strong‑willed Silke Jordan challenges him in a modern romance that tests his power, money, and ego.

Henry Smart rises from the slums of 1901 Dublin to become a 14‑year‑old Irish Citizen Army soldier, later a fearless rebel in the 1917 uprising, known for his wooden‑leg weapon and daring bike assassinations.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

Set in a wartime English seaside town of the 1790s, Sylvia's Lovers follows a young woman torn between the passionate whaling harpooner Charley Kinraid and her devoted cousin Philip Hepburn, whose secret withholding ends in tragedy.

A tale of manners and expectations in the city versus the countryside, exploring the clash between Polly and her wealthy friend Fanny Shaw.

James Salter's 'All that is' is a captivating and sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition. A deeply intimate portrait of the emotional and physical experiences of being alive. Set during the golden decades following World War II, the book captures Salter's lifelong obsession with capturing the intimate, ephemeral spaces that all of us hold and leave behind on paper. After serving as a young officer in Okinawa during the war, Philip Bowman returns home to a small publishing house in New York. The frenetic social scene of New York in the post-war era is a backdrop for the story, where Bowman feels at home. However, his enduring love seems to elude him. When he meets a woman who captivates him, Bowman embarks on a journey that he never intended to take. The book is celebrated for its lyrical evocation of a post-war world imaginatively rendered and beautifully written.

After she inherits her childhood home, a magnificent chateau in Le Cote d'Azur, France, Emilie de la Martinieres realizes that it may hold secrets to her family's enigmatic past during World War II.

After her husband George’s sudden death, Antoinette’s life is upended when a mysterious woman appears at his funeral, unveiling family secrets that threaten to unravel everything she thought she knew.

Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset’s historical epic follows 14th‑century Norwegian woman Kristin Lavransdatter through devotion, love, family, and societal upheaval, set against a richly detailed backdrop of medieval Norway.

The Red Chamber's captivating tale of friendship and intrigue in the heart of 18th-century Beijing, weaving through layers of Chinese history and societal norms.

Set on Easter Monday 1916 in Dublin, this historical fiction follows a divided family caught in the turmoil of the Irish Easter Rising, where two generations clash over contrasting hopes and loyalties.

Amid the American Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton balances ambition with devotion as he and Elizabeth Schuyler navigate marriage, legacy, and the battlefield.

When sixteen-year-old Noa is forced to abandon her child after a forbidden pregnancy with a Nazi soldier, she discovers a boxcar of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and steals one to escape.